Greasemonkey - inputting message into textarea of message box in Google Voice

Question

I am trying to write a script that will send a text to a number with a message of my choosing, but I am stuck on this part.

I am able to pass a number into the Google Voice "To" field by doing the following:

document.getElementById("gc-quicksms-number").value = number;

but I am unable to pass a message into the "Message" field with this:

document.getElementById("gc-quicksms-text2").value = "Error detected";

The block of code in the source looks like this:

http://pastebin.com/2LrhLZXc

Thank you! Your assistance will be greatly appreciated.

`document.getElementById("gc-quicksms-text2").value = "Error detected";` works perfectly fine in Firefox. There must be something else in the script. Paste or link to its source code. — Brock Adams, Jul 23 '11 at 22:28
I only have these two lines in the script, and the first part works fine but not the second. — loopx, Jul 23 '11 at 22:30
in a test script I mean, just these two lines, the To field is populated fine but not the Message — loopx, Jul 23 '11 at 22:49

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 26 '11 at 11:47

Since it's Google, that page is probably heavily ajax based. Which means that gc-quicksms-text2 is not there right away. The fact that it's "text2" suggests that these <textarea>s may not always have the same id; they may be auto numbered.

So try the following:

Install Firebug, if you haven't already.

Load and run this script:

// ==UserScript==
// @name            _Google voice starter
// @include         http://www.google.com/googlevoice/*
// @require         http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.2/jquery.min.js
// ==/UserScript==

unsafeWindow.console.clear();
var report = unsafeWindow.console.info;
report ('GM Script start');


var timerHandle = setInterval (checkForSMS_Textboxes, 777);

function checkForSMS_Textboxes () {
    var SMS_Textboxes   = $('textarea.gc-quicksms-text');
    var SMS_Textboxes   = $('textarea');

    var newTB_ids       = SMS_Textboxes.map ( function () {
                            var jThis   = $(this);
                            if (jThis.prop ('bFoundBefore') )
                                return null;
                            else {
                                jThis.prop ('bFoundBefore', true);
                                jThis.text ('Can you see me?');
                                return this.id ? this.id : 'null';
                            }
                        } ).get ().join (', ');

    if (newTB_ids)
        report ('Found new textarea(s): ', newTB_ids);
}

The code should fill in the SMS boxes and report each new text area to the Firebug console. What does the console report?

Greasemonkey - inputting message into textarea of message box in Google Voice

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